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TIL Harvard Business Review suggests playing WoW for teambuilding with a remote boss/team.

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b9XKp TIL in 2007, an English woman cremated her missing son, only for him to turn up alive and well a day later. It turned out that the police had mistakenly identified another dead man as her son, and she herself had become convinced after they confirmed his “distinctive scars”, such as a brain injury.
9YdV6 TIL the word "Thou" was originally singular and "You" was plural. "You" was also used as a formal second person singular, to the point that "Thou" came to be considered impolite and eventually fell out of use.
Xp7k TIL that Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition
9wpRG TIL of the Stockholm Bloodbath, an event occuring after the Danish king Christian II was coronated. With his victory, the aristocracy demanded economic compensation. Nearly 100 aristocrats were killed, with blood running in the streets from all the beheadings.
9YMPp TIL: Over the next 20 years, a new pilot will need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every 15 minutes in order to meet demand.